My hair is the physical evidence for why I strongly support and encourage eating gluten free, among many other reasons.

If you have Celiac Disease and are still eating gluten, you will be malnourished because your digestive tract is tore up from the floor up my friend.

If you can’t get the food properly into your body and blood stream, it sure isn’t going to your hair.

As a result of this malnourishment due to your damaged digestive tract, you will have several major health problems, from low blood sugar to migraines to mood issues to thin brittle early greying hair.

When I was born, my mom said I had a weird layer of dead skin cells on my head for two years and my hair wouldn’t grow. No doctors were able to help her. Around two years old, I guess, she peeled off the skin from my head and it finally started to grow.

Still, my hair was always thin and brittle and didn’t grow as long as I would have liked.

In my thirties, when I learned I was intolerant to gluten and stopped eating gluten, my hair started to grow in thicker, darker, shinier, and faster! I even had hairs that were grey and kinky start growing in dark straight and lovely.

When I started eating gluten free, I had a complete reversal of my hair from so-so normal to fabulous.

Now that I am trudging along in my thirties, everyone assumes I color my hair and they make somewhat rude comments to me in reference to when I had lighter less lovely hair. I have even had people think I was wearing a wig!

“Is that your real hair?”

I am happy to point out the few strands of silver hair I have to prove the rest is actually natural dark hair.

List of Best Gluten Free Organic Foods & Vitamins for Healthy Hair

In addition to eating gluten-free, vitamins and gluten-free organic foods that will help your hair grow healthier are…

Avoidingsun and hats is important to healthy hair, as both damage the hair and scalp. A loose straw or cotton hat is best if you are going to be in the sun, so your head and hair can breath.

When you are away from the sun, take off the hat, massage your head, lighten up your hair, and give a good water rinse that night.

Likewise, if you ride a motorcycle or are a fireman and often wear a helmet, make sure to give your head some extra love and cleansing to remove the grime. If your hair is blocked, it can’t grow.

Intaking toxins like smoke, drugs, and alcohol are also going to infringe on your overall health and of course affect the outcome of your hair.

When my brother was being pumped with the strongest drugs on the planet to keep him alive for over a month in the hospital, shortly after he recovered, he lost a lot of his beautiful hair and the new hair grew in redder, kinky, and thinner. His hair was permanently damaged by the illness and drugs. As he has just switched to a gluten free diet, we’ll see if that helps his hair any.

What grows out of your head is partly due to genetics, but it is also how healthy you are, what you do, and how you eat.

WARNINGS: Other than Celiac Disease, you may have a different major health issue causing your hair to be brittle or fall out, like Anemia, Diabetes, liver failure, and Cancer, to name a few. If eating healthy isn’t enough to help your hair, you want to make sure you do not have a life threatening illness.

As with poop, hair (particularly for women) is an indicator of how healthy you are — you can see what is going on inside your body by what comes out!

For millions of people, unbeknownst to them (or their doctors), ingesting gluten will cause uncontrollable painful abdominal spasms, spot bleeding outside a woman’s menstruation period from a spasming uterus, diarrhea or constipation from a spasming colon.

The pain caused me serious embarrassment at home, in my private life, and at the work place, where people thought I was a complete freak for laying on floor, buckled over, and writhing in pain — not to mention the farting that would soon follow. They thought I was just putting on show, trying to get attention, when the reality was that of complete and utter humiliation.

At least 20 doctors were absolutely 100% useless. Not one single doctor could do the simple math: stomach + wrong food = abdominal pain. Duh! Not one single doctor ever asked me what I was eating. And having tried several different diets myself, I couldn’t figure it out because gluten is in EVERYTHING (it seemed at the time) — it was in everything that I had been eating, “healthy” or otherwise.

#2 CHARCOAL PILLS These are the healthy super basic form of Pepto Bismol with no pink dye or other ingredients and they are found at health food grocery stores, nutrition centers, and drug stores.

#3 TUMS antacids. Mint!Don’t get the fruit flavor, it will make you want to vomit.

Tums are basically just calcium, so it’s not like you are taking a bunch of effed up meds.

“Although we do not use gluten as a filler in TUMS, there may be trace amounts of gluten in TUMS Smoothies Cocoa and Cream flavor via ingredients that are supplied by outside vendors. Other products of TUMS do not contain gluten. Review the “inactive ingredients” section on the bottle label to see if the variety you have selected contains gluten.”

Tums even has a Tums punching out a burrito on their ad right now — burritos have white flour tortillas (gluten), beans (gaseous), tomatoes (acidic), and hot peppers (ouch)… all great candidates for abdominal pain.

#4 GAS-X My mom lives by this stuff. She won’t stop eating gluten. What can you do? Different generation.

#5 HOT MILK if you are NOT lactose intolerant, milk is a quick alkaline substance to sooth your digestive track. Milk, cheese, and yogurt help me a lot when I have pain or hunger. If you are lactose intolerant, dairy will be the ruin of you.

#6 BANANAS are alkaline and a soothing food to eat, if you need to eat something while you are going through this pain.

#7 SPASFON is an abdomen spasm-targeting medication you can only get in France — I have no idea why it’s not available in the USA or elsewhere, but it is belly ache gold and works better than ANYTHING I have ever used. So if you are visiting France, make sure to get some of this! A doctor prescribed it to me there. Is magick! If you have the money, it’s worth the trip!

Nothing completely saves you once the damage is done and you have already ingested something in the past three days, but these easily available remedies help a lot against belly aches and gas!

Seek out Calcium and ALKALINE natural substances for your intestinal troubles and food. Keep some of these suggested tablets with you.

As bizarre as a topic as this might be to you, your bowel movements are an extremely important part of your life and indicator of your health level.

On a gluten free diet, people with Celiac Disease have regular blissful bowel movements.

When you have Celiac Disease and you don’t know it, you continue to eat gluten-full foods and find yourself regularly constipated (like me), crapping only twice a week, or with diarrea and running like a leaky faucet (like my mom). Once you make the change to gluten free, you crap solid and regularly once or twice a day.

When I was sixteen and having a regular doctor’s checkup, I will never forget when I learned what a bowel movement was. My handsome doctor (who looked like Richard Gere and flirted with my mother in the room) tapped my knees with that rubber triangle thing and laughed at my kicking reflexes. “How are your bowel movements?” He asked me.

“Huh?” I asked. “What are bowel movements?”

I don’t remember what his medical answer was. It surely wasn’t “taking a shit or a crap or a poop,” but somehow he explained to me what bowel movements were in a professional manner. Feces… Excrement… Food that passes through your stomach and intestines to your bowels and then out of your body.

“I don’t know, fine, I guess,” I responded like a typical teenager. If you don’t know why a doctor is asking a question or what is the proper indicator of good health, it is impossible to answer the question with the kind of information a doctor would need to know that something is wrong.

The doctor didn’t probe further, for if he had, he would have found out how irregularly I had bowel movements.

Be aware that irregular or liquid bowel movements are a sign that something is wrong with you; it may not be Celiac Disease, but it is something.